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I personally havent but a friend of mine did. He was attempting to get into dentistry at university. Despite having better grades that lots of people in his class he did not make it through to the second year as the quota for minorities getting into the class had to be met. There were people with B averages getting through (He had an A-) simply because they were of maori descent (maori are the native people of New Zealand).

I'm an Australian, and I have to say that this is where we go wrong - we aren't following New Zealand's lead with this. Disadvantaged minorities (or majorities, whichever it may be) need a leg up. Sure, nt the short-term that may mean an unequal playing field, but will mean equaliy in the long-term.

I'm rather tall and rather white - so I stuck out like a sore thumb when I traveled around both Mexico and India. The most obvious 'discrimination' I got for being so painfully Anglo was that everyone thought I was rich. Hordes of children would follow me begging for money and every store clerk jacked up their prices 200% for me, whereas other friends I was visiting / working with had totally normal interactions with the people there.

Also, few kids yelled 'Gringo' at me in Mexico a couple times. In India, I had an odd encounter where some kids yelled "what's up d00d?!" at me in such an exaggerated American accent that I was sure they were making fun of me some how.

I don't understand how that's discrimination. a) You ARE rich if you can afford to travel anywhere, and this has nothing to do with skin colour, and b) it's a stereotype, not discrimination - you don't have a disadvantage. The same with the kids - all they know of American culture is what they see on TV and such, just like how you might say "g'day mate" if you knew I was Australian.

Well, one day I was at the city park in the town I live in with my little brother. A few guys I knew and a few guys I've never seen before (three African American and two Mexican American) apparently had it out for me for no earthly reason. They were walking towards us, and I spoke under my breath to my little brother "If something happens such as violent language or threats, walk away. Don't run and don't stare at them."

They walked up to us and got into a circle, not too widely spread, but the guy that had a problem with me was right behind me. The "leader" I guess you could call it, (half white, half black) was talking shit and making false accusations of me staring and using racial slurs. Well, it came down to the leader saying "We ain't gonna have no problems, but the guy behind you wants to fight you anyway" and they all laughed and were like "He can't fight. He white. He just a pussie. He gonna go home or tell the cops so just beat his ass. If he don't wanna, let's get him to."

I stood there a minute and I was just observing everybody, seeing if my brother and I could take them. I finally said "I have not one problem with any of you guys. I apologize for any past expierences that may have caused you to have it out for me." They laughed and said "Haha this nigga think he's smart usin' some jank ass vocabulary. He ain't gonna do nothin" so then they proceded to pick on my little brother.

for the entirety of my 8 year relationship with a dark skinned hispanic chick from the bronx who ended up having my child, and i still get discriminated against by them to this day even though we broke up in 1999, as in the whole dad thing.

You can experience discrimination for being a minority in a particular area (if you're white) but its not the same as racism - you're highly unlikely to face discrimination in employment/education, and people are unlikely to have (negative) ideas about you before they've met you because of your race.

There have been many instances of promotions and hiring done on police and fire departments being thrown out do to "racism" because of whites being skipped over so that quotas could be met for political reasons.

It's an insular society because the country's an archipelago and they had a 200-year period in which it was basically illegal to enter or leave the country. Plus it's a groupist, conformist culture. But a nice place to live, if you can deal with the negative stuff.

i was at 69th street in delaware county (not such a nice place) with an acquaintance while our gfs were shopping in some department store. we went to popeyes, i think, for some fried chicken and realized when we sat down we had no napkins in our food bag. i went back up and asked if she had any, the black blob behind the counter said no, but i could clearly see napkins on a counter to her left. very scary

Got the shit kicked out of me at school my senior year of high school. Skull fractures, concussion, lovely stuff all around. Left quite a lot of blood, too.

Warrants are put out for our arrests. Kid gets arrested, I turn myself in after the hospital discharges me. We both get out on bail, judicial system starts looking into the case. Kid gets beat up on school campus with multiple witnesses; seems pretty straightforward to them (even the prosecutor seemed to think it was a waste of time). Thing is, I'm white; he's black. That meant they had to continue pressing charges against me.